The study by the Aichi Cancer Center involved 58,000 men and women between the ages of 40 and 79. Led by senior researcher Kenji Wakai, the research team studied the lifestyles of participants over a three-year period to 1990 and conducted follow-ups that lasted an average of 7-1/2 years.

In examining the colon-cancer rate among drinkers, non-drinkers, and those trying to abstain from drinking, the researchers found that the cancer rate was twice as high among drinking males as non-drinkers. Furthermore, men trying to give up drinking had the same risk of developing colon cancer as regular drinkers.

No elevated colon-cancer risk was seen in women drinkers.

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